Guest Column: Let education professionals do their job

7:57 PM,
Apr. 23, 2013

Written by

Mike Hinson
Guest Columnist

I'm a believer in being involved, but I can't help wondering if the problem with our education system is that too many people are involved. Trying to run things by consensus is not the best way to run a business.

A question to The Advertiser's Advisory Board asked if students take too many standardized tests. I appreciate the answers given, and I too have an opinion, but I believe, on the matter of education, we are asking the wrong questions to the wrong people.

The very questions being discussed today are the same ones debated for as far back as we want to remember. As a youth of the 1950s and '60s, I ...